"Both my parents are immigrants. They came from nothing, had to work so hard, and so the idea for them, I suppose, of taking a risk, that wasn’t a luxury they had. I always knew that was the luxury and privilege that I had, that they had given me."
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"Gemma Chan: ‘Nothing will top the night I pole-danced with Celine Dion on a bus’" in The Guardian (28 July 2019)
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